winter weather

Freezing rain and snow on top! What a lovely day! I am enjoying staying inside and catching up some on the blog. The picture is from last years ice storm, but it looks pretty much the same today. I haven't gotten out to take any yet.

Comfort food, homemade soup, and chocolate chip cookies seemed like a good idea to fill in time, between finishing up the apple quilt, binding a baby quilt, doing some embriodery for Heather and working on a crochet project too. Nice and warm and get good warm fuzzies, feeling like I am accomplishing something too.

DD2 called from San Diego to say she had finished her quilt top today too. Can't wait to see it!

*Cheering all of you on with your projects*

BOM-ba-dom-dom

My turn to do the BOM for our guild. Our meeting was cancelled because of weather, but I posted the instructions on our guild site.

The purple, green and yellow one it the actual BOM.

I REALLY liked the block andhad a fat eighth of a fabric that just said I needed to do something with it so. . . . of course, I got utterly carried away, made the pattern smaller and now have 5 that I amde with the fat eighth in them and 5 more that sort of co-ordinate.

Now, I have to figure out what to do with them.

The apple quilt top is done!

The apple quilt is set! Thanks to all of you who helped make the blocks! I am VERY pleased with the outcome.

-The border was a challenge, I was about out of the apple print and the red dots, Walmart didn't have anymore of the dots either. When I finished it up I had just a handfull of scraps.

Anyway it is done now and can sit in the shelves until I can get around to getting it to the quilters. I have a chance to make a trade for some work for a small hand quilting frame. . . maybe I will get real carried away and quilt it myself.

Christmas Thoughts

This is the quilt for grand daughter for Christmas. She is the only grandchild I hadn't made a Christmas quilt for. Just got it back from quilter this week and will work on binding it today.

The 'rest' of Christmas this year is mainly 'gifts in a jar', copies ofthe family cookbook we made and little things for the rest of the grands and greats.

This year things got slowed down a bit - I volunteered to make reindeer costumes for the preschool class, and do embroidery name tags for gloves and hats for them. It was a lot of fun! My neice, Heather, who did not sew is the mom of one of the students. She helped cut, sew and them do embroidery. Now she wants a sewing machine too.

Seems the habit just keeps growing, doesn't it?